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2026-02-02 07:01:36

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
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A slide on OS support (cont'd) * Translator records in /dev and /servers * Used to be a Hurd-specific ext2 extensions * Now using xattrs by default * Can now cross-install completely from Linux * FS JBD2 journaling support (Milos Nikic) * In progress * Console xkb keyboard layout (Etienne Brateau)
A slide on Current state * Rather stable * Have not reinstalled boxes for a decade * Debian buildds keep building packages * ~75% of Debian archive builds out of tree * XFCE, gnome, KDE, ... * Support merged upstream * gcc, glibc, llvm, rust, ... * Debian distribution * Guix/Hurd released!
Slide on Dissemination * News coverage * Quarter of the Hurd (QotH) (Joshua Branson) * Guix/hurd (Manolis Ragkousis, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen, Yelninei) * https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/ * Alpine (Sergey Bugaev) | z | |
Slide: So, what do we have? * x86_64 SMP * SATA/USB disk/cd, all in userland * netwokr driver & TCP/IP all in userland * kernel only manages tasks, memory, IPC * go, rust, ocaml, ghc, some java... * Debian (~75% packages) * Guix * som Arch, some Alpine * An the usual Hurd stuff: user-controlled translators, fine grain access control, sub-hurds.